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worry wort

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was in discussion yesterday with a fellow brewer, talking about my recent swap from KnK to hops n yeast n grains, and he said he often uses coopers australian pale ale instead of inkeepers daughter to make the sparkling ale brew. Are those brews interchangeable like that? I only have 3 brews down at a time so tend to follow recipes to the letter for fear of a failure and having to rush a couple of brews to keep up supply.

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You can make additions to kits to change them into a different beer. 

For example, take the OS lager kit, add a kilo dry malt plus some combination of steeped dark roasted grains, maybe a hop boil for a bit more bitterness, and you'd have a porter or stout depending on what dark grains were used in what quantities.

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58 minutes ago, worry wort said:

Are those brews interchangeable like that?

Interchangeable probably isn't the right word, but they have similarities. The Sparkling Ale is regarded as the Pale Ales' big brother. You could use the Pale Ale kit to produce a beer resembling the Sparkling Ale with some increased malt additions & some additional hop bittering (primarily), but you cannot do the reverse as the Sparkling Ale kit is bittered considerably higher than the Pale Ale kit.

The Pale Ale kit is a great platform for experimentation as it is not too heavy in any one area, & is probably why you see it used in more DIY recipes than any other.

Cheers,

Lusty.

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